Sentence examples for spile from inspiring English sources

Using a peg called a spile, they pierce the bark, attach the tubing, and a central vacuum pump ensures a smooth, steady flow of sap.

You can use a little tap known as spigot or spile.

One admires the precision of "spiles," a spile being the technical term for "a small wooden peg or spigot for stopping a cask" that has been extended to its even more specific North American meaning of "a small wooden or metal spout for tapping the sap from a sugar maple".

The digger-shield type of machine is essentially a hydraulic-powered digger arm excavating ahead of a shield, whose protection can be extended forward by hydraulically operated poling plates, acting as retractable spiles.

While solid wall forepoling is nearly a lost art, an adaptation of it is termed spiling.

In spiling the forepoles are intermittent with gaps between.

Crown spiling is still resorted to for passing bad ground; in this case spiles may consist of rails driven ahead, or even steel bars set in holes drilled into crushed rock.

It is not time, as yet, for rising sapAnd hammered spiles.

Although I had spiles (something like spigots) with hooks from Vermont -- and thoughts of using them to hang my bucket directly from the tree the old-fashioned way -- my "Little House" dreams were dashed by the realities of urban tapping (a wire fence).

The fact is that even in a quietist poem such as "Sugar Maples, January," the last of the dozen or so poems by Wilbur that I published in The New Yorker in the past ten years, there's a quaking not far below the surface: It is not time, as yet, for rising sap And hammered spiles.